Sowing the seas, a radical initiative to cool the planet ...
This ability of phytoplankton to extract carbon dioxide, CO2, which heats the atmosphere and produce aerosols that promote additional cooling, has caused researchers to promote the urgent fertilization of the oceans through the global seeding of iron sulfite and other nutrients, that stimulate the growth of phytoplankton.
Global warming is a concern for all humanity, mainly for the actors involved in the development of agriculture. It is not possible to achieve the objectives of feeding the world's population without taking radical measures to mitigate the effects of climate change and global warming.
Damage to crops due to the impact of global warming can be irreparable and sometimes means the total loss of agricultural producers' assets.
The countries meet and make agreements, for the time being they have set as their objective the maintenance of the temperature rise indexes in the acceptable ranges and not increase of the 2 ° C. The slogan is to adapt to climate change, according to the United Nations and the developed countries, and for this they have allocated important resources to subsidize the countries most affected by the phenomenon.
However, scientific researchers do not expect, nor join the slogan of adapting to climate change as such, and have opted to intervene effectively in mitigating global warming, in this specific case observing the behavior of the sea and the environment. phytoplankton, since microalgae are the basis of most of the oceanic food webs and in the process of photosynthesis absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, converting it to carbohydrates and oxygen.
Some phytoplankton species release dimethyl sulfide, DMS, into the atmosphere, forming sulfate aerosols, which can reflect sunlight or increase cloud cover and reflectivity, resulting in a cooling effect.
This ability of phytoplankton to extract carbon dioxide, CO2, which heats the atmosphere and produce aerosols that promote additional cooling, has caused researchers to promote the urgent fertilization of the oceans through the global seeding of iron sulfite and other nutrients, that stimulate the growth of phytoplankton. With this they have created a radical initiative of geoengineering to reduce global warming, based on the sowing and fertilization of the seas.
This first scientific research initiative can produce unwanted side effects, because effectively the improved DMS emissions would reduce the increase of the planetary surface temperatures to 1,2 ° C for the 2100, but it can also have a negative result in the alteration of precipitation in some regions of the world, so that scientists will continue to perfect the method of geoengineering, and inviting others to study scenarios of fertilization of the oceans, in order to counteract global warming, product of the emission of gases of greenhouse effect
Source: Blueberrieschile.cl - Blueberriesconsulting.com
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